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- Title
Near miss to underground ethylene pipe.
- Abstract
A 'near miss' to a potentially major environmental incident occurred when contractors excavated a trench (3 metres deep) 20 metres from a major underground ethylene pipeline running between England and Scotland. It was estimated that, if the pipeline had been ruptured, serious property damage within a radius of 5 km and a flash fire of about 500 metre span would have occurred. Lessons learned relate to: • Contractors taking insufficient notice of ground markers • Inadequate standards for the protection of underground plant. • Lack of understanding of the communications network that was in place.
- Subjects
UNDERGROUND pipelines; ETHYLENE; PROPERTY damage; CATHODIC protection; CONTRACTORS; EARTHWORK laws; SAFETY
- Publication
Loss Prevention Bulletin, 2010, Issue 211, p24
- ISSN
0260-9576
- Publication type
Article